| Leslie Porterfield | |
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Leslie Porterfield on the Bonneville Salt Flats
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| Nationality | American |
| Born | Dallas,[1] Texas |
Leslie Porterfield was named as the 2008 American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Racing Female Rider of the Year,[2] holds three land-speed records and is a member of the Bonneville 200 mph club. She is the former co-owner of High Five Cycles with Ronnie Trent, a used motorcycle dealership in north Dallas.[citation needed] She has been riding and racing motorcycles since her mid-teens. She was born on April 16, 1976.[3]
Leslie Porterfield was previously the Guinness Book of World Records' "Fastest conventional motorcycle speed (female)" with her land speed record of 374.208 km/h (232.522 mph) set at Bonneville Speedway in 2008.[4] That record was broken in 2019 and is now held by Erin Sills[5] at 381.857 km/h (237.275 mph).[6]
The trials and tribulations of obtaining her record at Speedweek were documented for the Discovery Channel show "Speed Capital of the World: Bonneville".[7][8]
Leslie Porterfield is writing for Motorbikes India online magazine.[9][10]
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